Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.